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Paul McCartney says John Lennon 'instigated' the Beatles' break-up

The supposed evidence was a press release for his 1970 solo album, McCartney, where he revealed he was on a "break" from rock's biggest band.

Interviewing himself, Sir Paul said he could not "foresee a time when Lennon-McCartney becomes an active songwriting partnership again".

But in a new BBC interview, he has said the split was prompted by John Lennon.

"I didn't instigate the split. That was our Johnny," he told interviewer John Wilson. "I am not the person who instigated the split.

Clip of 'lost' Beatles Top of the Pops performance unearthed

The silent snippet is all that exists of the Fab Four miming to Paperback Writer on the BBC pop show in 1966.

The original tapes were not kept, but it was recorded by a viewer filming their TV set with an 8mm camera.

The footage was shot by a family in Liverpool and eventually fell into the hands of a collector in Mexico.

The collector contacted Kaleidoscope, a Birmingham-based organisation specialising in locating previously missing TV footage.

Lennon's forged Beatle newspaper autographs sell at auction

A front page photo shows Paul McCartney crowning the carnival queen in Northwich, Cheshire, in 1963.

It was taken by photographer Les Goode and featured in Alkali News - an in-house magazine for chemical company ICI.

He sent it off to the Beatles to be autographed, but John Lennon signed it on behalf of all four band members.

 

'Full of mischief'

He wrote: "All the best from the Beatles" before sending it back to Mr Goode.

Paul McCartney: Yoko Ono and I are 'mates'

In a new interview with Rolling Stone, Paul McCartney reflects on his career as a member of the Beatles and says he and John Lennon's wife, Yoko Ono, are in a good place.

Ono has long been blamed for breaking the band up after she became involved with Lennon. McCartney said the group didn't do well with her constant presence back then.

Beatles join streaming revolution

More than 200 tracks by the Beatles have been licensed to nine streaming services.

Spotify, Apple Music, Google Play, Tidal and Amazon Prime Music are among nine services that will offer the band's tracks worldwide.

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